Torchwood: Lost Souls


I’ve been listening to Torchwood: Lost Souls, the BBC Radio 4 play you can listen to for a limited time through iPlayer if you’re a UK resident. Verdict? It works well enough on audio, the story is okay… You’re not getting a totally enthusiastic vibe from me, are you? It’s primarily because the acting came across as a little wooden at points. Maybe that’s because the main actors are used to working in a very different performance medium, that is, television. It was definitely better than the Doctor Who radio plays of the 1990s, which were almost abysmal.

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

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Topical Torchwood taps into social meme of animal cruelty


This week’s Torchwood episode, Meat, couldn’t have been more topical, dealing as it did with an alien being cruelly abused and stripped of its meat by men without conscience and greedy for money. Immediately after the broadcast we switched over to BBC News 24 announcing that a government survey has shown over a fifth of broiler chickens live their very short lives crippled and in agony. Talk about coincidence. Or maybe something deeper and more profound?

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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